And I didnt ask how much I was going to get paid. Two of them lived on the same block. We do it under the sponsorship of the Seminole Rotary Club. I really thought that I was worth $20 a week, but $12 a week with my salary. MM: I was 20 then. Donaho, the reluctant attendee of the original meeting, still serves as executive director. Although Jasmines music teacher encouraged her to pursue opera, with her remarkable 3-octave voice range, she made a career in Londons West End as a musical singer and actress. that particular issue. It was called Page Drugstore. So we feel very blessed that we can all get along with each other. Israel is probably more secure than most any major city in America. Senator, Governor or Lieutenant Governor or Attorney General or other offices. Laura Hyde Upload Coordinator. There was an open field by the schoolhouse, and the Germans would aim at anything moving in the field, Moran said. She was torn between a stage and screen career or becoming a loving wife in a different country. Helpful resources for students and educators to help them get the most from VOK. Dearly. So, I was very involved. So I went to the University of Missouri because of the Journalism School and at that time the University of Missouri had a policy that they charged their out-of-state students the same thing that they were charging in-state students. I did not have any interest in the business that my father had started. I wasnt a particularly stand out looker, but I had a really good voice and I knew that when I went to sing that I would win generally, whatever the thing was. JE: Thats fun. You got into politics back in the 1950s and early 1960s, among other things known as the McCarthy Era. They would burn their way through the roof. We had a really excellent board meeting at the end of the meeting we invited Reggie to come up and name the new wing. You can translate that however you wish. JE: Maynard was that Maynard Ungerman? We wanted new things instead of old things. I had exactly the right number of papers that I would need to fulfill my route, so I would be short one paper. As a matter of fact the young lady that played the lead in it was a friend of mine too. to the family or plant a tree Our family has all played on it and pretended that theyre driving in it and theyve done everything to it. Did you go? And Melvin said, I did. And the doctor said, Well, its working. So that was how my name got put on it, without me wanting to. Jasmine Moran: Its frightening how I didnt know how many people were coming. After the judge talked three of the people that he excused into coming back, it turned out that they were 12 of the most dedicated people that you could possibly imagine. The women in Morans family were Gaelic, known as the faerie people, and they were famed for being able to see the future. MM: It continues till this day and every year we have a raffle. I mean people almost came out to see me. Well, she spent most of the day in our grocery store at the museum and her mom says now she wants to be a grocery checker. We stayed at the hotel because the wedding was there. So weve been great friends ever since and Robert has been on the board almost from. Your bread was a loaf of bread per family of four. We cant eat anything that came from a pig. The Jasmine Moran family thanks all for your outpouring of love for a one-of-a-kind woman who will live in our hearts forever. I was thinking about fundraising and I thought Im a pretty good writer, so I would compose a wonderful letter about what a really good project this is. Senator Al Gore, Sr. and two other senators were on a fact-finding trip and they went to Guam. But she had this need to help people. In early 1926 the population of Seminole was 864. I dont know if you believe in prayer or not. So I was alone in the house expecting my first child. And both of us had walked home. Wells we intended to plug out but we would try to produce them and found out they did produce and we were able to improve them and they are still producing today. He had been an Air Force officer who had graduated from UCLA and he invited them back and to bring. When we met with the Oklahoma Bar Associations investigators to discuss disbarment I was one of the people involved in that. Lillian had married a scoundrel who not only caroused with other women but had the bad taste to leave his family on their own when he died of pneumonia. JM: Im over it. There were dozens and dozens of schools, sometimes a school on every section, because they were just so many people. And that was the beginning of our date. By the family. the people were screaming inside. Did we have to put a fence around it or what? We were supposed to meet outside of the theater. Property matters including settlements and conveyancing. A month or so after that, my Commanding Officer called my two fellow officers who I lived with and me into his office and he wanted to know everything we could tell him about Peter Miles. Melvin was an oilman, and Seminole was such a pretty little town. (Laughter) So I thought this cannot be. We had to wash them by hand. I remember we interviewed 90 witnesses. Jasmine fell in love, but she wasnt sure if she loved Melvin enough to change her entire life and move to America. So it really became a very, very bad area to be living in during that period of time. "Melvin & Jasmine Moran: Founders of Childrens Museum" Interview by John Erling. You go into water and you are given the formal invocation I guess you might call it into the service. As Moran entered the childrens theater at the Jasmine Moran Childrens Museum on Nov. 1, the fiery energy that spurred her whole life was evident despite what she called her wheelie-dealie walker and her tired, painful shuffle. After several years of this depression of the oil business, we were down to about 20 firms, and those that were left were just shells themselves. And they did. They had started out from France and they had had terrible weather across the coast from France to England, so they were all ready seasick when I got there. Jasmine now resides at 122 Vale Str, Tewksbury, MA 01876-1538. MM: Weve walked around the streets of both Tel Aviv and Jerusalem at midnight and never felt insecure. MM: Yes and then after we were married, we went on the honeymoon in California and came back to Seminole. JE: I mean he didnt buy it for the oil, he bought it for the equipment and it turned out to produce oil? Shes been on our board and a wonderful, wonderful member. JE: In the 80s your oil business hit a rough time. But the oil bust in the 80s nearly killed our little town.. She tried her best with me but pastry was not one of the things that she managed to get through to me. My salary was, $12 a week, and that was before the deduction for Social Security. Seminole resident, mother, wife, friend and well-known philanthropist Jasmine Moran died at the age of 87 on Saturday, March 5, and though gone, her legacy will live on through her various projects and community outreach. She was married to a man by the name of George Kahn. She went on to do a lot of things but shes probably best known in this country for the television show Frasier where she played Mrs. Like the true faerie people of the old country, Jasmine continues to do just that. (Laughter) So thats the explanation. JM: No, no. We all came together as a group. Working with volunteers and donors in Seminole and all over the country, they succeeded in bringing a first-class childrens museum to their hometown. They were his friends too. You worked at a drugstore? In the 21st century, it's not just urns and gravestones anymore. He sold scrap. Melvin Moran: Another one of the nurses in that show was another young woman that Jasmine went to school with and her name was Millicent Martin. MM: Well, actually I was invited to the White House three times but to meet with the President twice. Sorry, you need to enable JavaScript to visit this website. The person that I first asked said, What in the devil is that? I said, You cook with it. And he said, Ive never heard of it before. (Laughter) Anyway we got that straightened out and I managed to buy some. One of her first projects was the organization and founding of the Seminole Humane Society. One is that I did and one is that I didnt. Anson lives in Seminole with her husband, Jerry. There was real Will Rogers and then Daniel Webster and then Tulsa Central. So I walked around again and several more times and had just about decided to go back home when a black limousine came up and this man jumped out all wet and in an American uniform, and he was soaking wet. It was unbelievable. Seminoles reverence for their beloved Jasmine was obvious at any public event she attended, when the line grew long to greet her, shake her hand, hug or kiss her. Melvin, youve got to be a good person because you will likely be the only Jewish person that many of these children have ever met, and may be the only Jewish person that theyll ever know. your email below for our complimentary daily grief messages. So I went to OKC and immediately found out that it was not Senator Al Gore the presidential candidate, it was Senator Al Gore, the father of the presidential candidate. We had our next meeting in the Phillips Pavilion which is adjoining the governors mansion. The Japanese are fierce fighters and we are going to have to kill a million Japanese. A few days later, the same three senators went to the Philippines where General McArthur was. Include your loved one's complete obituary on Legacy for just $10. JE: Well then between two of these entities then, the Humane Society and the Childrens Museum? Then I ended up in a cabin with three other ladies, and one very small cabin, below water. I really liked Horace Mann and then most of the students I attended Horace Mann with went on to Central High School. I mean she never ever raised her voice. Her mother, born out of wedlock, was raised by her grandmother and earned her place in the world by mastering Scottish dance. So you. But I really enjoyed it. JE: Were you named after somebody special? I guess I was kind of a mercenary, but it was a good choice. So he decided to move to Tulsa simply so I could go to Tulsa and study for my Bar Mitzvah. JE: Also back then you were impressed with a young state representative named David Boren? Animals are living things, and they feel, she said. That very first time we went we noticed this feeling of weve got to get together and stay together in order to make this work. The children were forced to evacuate. But, generally they were on their own. And from the field office here in Seminole, I was the one that worked with our superintendent to operate those wells. Mrs. Moran and her husband, local oilman and philanthropist Melvin Moran, co-founded Seminoles Jasmine Moran Childrens Museum, and Mrs. Moran researched, planned and funded the towns new no-kill animal shelter. As a matter of fact my brother did exactly the same thing. Read more about the life story of Jasmine and share your memory. And from that he went into oil field equipment of all types: tanks and pump units and so forth. David Kessler's top 4 tips for dealing with holiday grief. One time had to do with President Clinton and a program that he was promoting. It was a very heady experience. up the correct corruption and some really bad things that were going on. Basically, the government in Israel is kind of like one big family. MM: Well, here in Seminole we didnt have buses. When you go a block to deliver one paper, its not nearly as good as delivering 10 papers on a block. My mother told me, If I were you, Id marry him, Moran said. I realized I had a chance. I want to see the museum. So we made an appointment for Stan Hupfeld to come to Seminole and Kim came also. Later on, after dad died, all of the operation was brought back here to Seminole. And we are in Jerusalem, the holiest city in the world, and to have thoughts of God would not be that unusual. So I was sitting in air raid bases day and night because the bombings were right over where we went to school. We didnt know how to get started and we didnt know what the funding was, but we had the Rotary Club behind us and they were really good about it. Youll make your fortune with your face, the woman said. Melvin, you saw the need to serve your city. MM: Some childhood friends, I had a lot of good friends in Tulsa. I was constantly picking my brain trying to answer his questions. Mom passed away peacefully at the Bonnechere Manor, after a brief illness at the age of 93. MM: Well the promise was that I would be more charitable than ever. Well, Im going to tell you though, in all fairness, this friend of ours, he said, Jasmine, youll do very well in America. He said, You wouldnt be considered kosher. Thats the way he described me and I said, What does that mean? And he said, Well, Ive done the best I can with you, but you will do okay in the United States.. The meeting will place in my office. I had won my game and several people were challenging me and I had won several times. My father had been one of these spendthrift people who went through life thinking that money would always appear in his pocket. We didnt put it in the kitchen, which would have been much smarterwe put it in the living room. So he would buy those wells and pull the pipe out and the other equipment off. And so we went and lived in the little English villages in the area. We looked around at buildings and none of the buildings we looked at were the correct thing. New Orleans, LA MICHAEL MORAN OBITUARY In the twilight hours of Divine Mercy Sunday, April 19, 2020 the world lost a good, gracious and loving man. JE: In the United States we didnt feel the fear of bombing like you did. It was a dreadful time because Queen Elizabeth was being married, and getting any kind of vehicle in or out of England was dreadful, you just couldnt. reading one of Einsteins books and he came to a part where he surely felt that Einstein was wrong. Because I dont drive, or I didnt drive then, whenever we were anywhere I would have to be the one to push the car while Melvin started the going. Jasmine and I both bonded with two of the members of the cast, Judge Robert Henry who was the President of Oklahoma City University and Gerald Adams who was the governors chief of staff. The Italia? Actually wells in this area produced earlier than 1926 in different formations. 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